Watercolors

Brushes, watercolor paint and paper. Love at first sight!

I have drawn and painted as far back as I can remember. Eventually I found that I preferred watercolors to other media and that I gravitate towards certain subjects over and over again. Most of my paintings are for sale and I am happy to take commissions, but mostly, I paint because I love to paint. The prices listed are for the unframed original watercolors. Please contact me for more information or for a viewing.

I Heart New York City

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. Sold

Mason Jar Beauty

22 x 15 in. / 50 x 38 cm. $235

Plums

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. $475

White Cosmos

22 x 15 in. / 50 x 38 cm. $225

Autumn Beauty

22 x 15 in. / 50 x 38 cm. $225

Autumn

21 x 29 in. / 53 x 73 cm. $225

Still Life with Pomegranate

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. $325

Orange Botanical Study

14 x 20 in. / 35 x 51 cm. $225

Seashell

10.5 x 14 in. / 26 x 35 cm. Sold

Pink Cosmos

14 x 21 in. / 35 x 53 cm. $295

Tulip

15 x 20 in. / 38 x 50 cm. $225

The Naturalist

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. Sold

Portrait of a Fly

14 x 21 in. / 35 x 53 cm. $325

Poppy

15 x 22 in. / 38 x 55 cm. Sold

African Daisy

12 x 16 in. / 30 x 40 cm. $225

Cherry

15 x 11 in. / 38 x 28 cm. Sold

Molbak's Flowers

12 x 16 in. / 30 x 40 cm. $175

It's Raining, It's Pouring

15 x 22 in. / 38 x 55 cm. $215

Another Cocktail

27 x 41 in. / 68 x 104 cm. Sold

Chosen for inclusion in Splash, Best of Watercolors. Appeared in Splash 15, printed in 2014.

Original Cocktail

24 x 36 in. / 60 x 91 cm. $1250

Chosen for inclusion in Splash, Best of Watercolors. Appeared in Splash 15, printed in 2014.

Cinni Fan

22 x 19 in. / 55 x 48 cm. Sold

Lovers at Sea

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. Sold

Martin & Marisa

16 x 22 in. / 40 x 55 cm. Sold

Richard & Emma

16 x 10 in. / 40 x 25 cm. Sold

Danny

22 x 15 in. / 50 x 38 cm. NFS

Gondola in Venice

72 x 44 in. / 183 x 112 cm. Sold

Ward's Kenmore Resort, 18 x 28

28 x 18 in. / 71 x 45 cm. $325

Pike Place Seafood

22 x 30 in. / 55 x 76 cm. $295

Market Eggplants

22 x 22 in. / 55 x 55 cm. Sold

London Sweets

19 x 15 in. / 48 x 38 cm. Sold

Selected for inclusion in the annual publication, Splash, The Best in Watercolors. This watercolor will appear in Splash 17 due for publication in 2016.

Tower of London

15 x 22 in. / 38 x 55 cm. $295

Wake Up in Siena

57 x 33 in. / 144 x 83 cm. $1200

Every Day Sketchbooks

I heart blank books. I love discovering them, buying them, receiving them as gifts. I have bins full of blank sketchbooks. And I still want more. And then I love filling them up with sketches and scribbles. I have shelves filled with sketchbooks I've kept throughout the years. Some by theme, some for traveling, some for every day life. Sketchbooks are one of my greatest joys.

1968 Chrysler 300

This is one of my husband's project cars. I absolutely loved sketching it and foresee more car sketches coming up. Who knew I could have so much fun in my own driveway?

Travel Sketchbooks

I love to travel with my sketchbook. I sketch throughout the days and nights while exploring new cities and old countries. I also collect napkins, tickets, street names, all manner of details along the way to add to my sketchbook at a later time, maybe when I'm back in my hotel room, or waiting for a train.

Carrying my camera comes naturally to me and I’ve taken thousands of travel photos throughout the years. In 2004 I decided to leave my camera home and travel with a blank book, watercolors, a few brushes, and a few pens instead. I discovered that by sketching my travels instead of just photographing them, I started to pay much more attention to everything: the receipts left on tables, train schedules, windows, sounds, people. The textures of traveling. Later, each page I have created allows me to live the experiences I had all over again. Looking back through these books, even years later, I am transported back to the ordinary and exquisite moments of my journeys.

Nature Sketchbooks

Sketch booking what is happening outside our windows is an amazing experience. Through my nature sketchbooks, I've developed a deeper relationship to the natural world. I've studied plants up close and explored the phases of the moon, I've learned about small details of birds and seashells and the bigger picture of geography. With a nature sketchbook in hand, the world is an endless source of wonder.

Moon Phases

This spread was inspired by my curiosity. I vaguely understood the phases of the moon but wanted to learn more. This was a great graphic I found online with loads of information. By recreating it in my nature sketchbook and writing down the parts that stood out the most to me, I was able to really get the picture. Heh.

Evening in May

I sketched this a few weeks ago. After drawing and painting the trees I felt that the scale was sort of ambiguous. A week later I went back to that tree and sketched a person that was standing close to it, to give a sense of scale.

Roots

The first time I visited Narbeck Wetlands Sanctuary, I walked less than five minutes down the path when I came across this tree with its impressive and pale roots.

Red Clover Blossom

I was intrigued by the three leaf clover leafs growing from the stem and the deep color of the flower. Capturing this find was such a peaceful way to spend an hour at sunset.

In my backyard

This cool woodpecker has been plugging away in our backyard for a while now...

Willows Lodge Gardens

I found a tall pack of Oriental Poppies holding court in the gardens last week. The flowers were about 6 inches wide and the most brilliant red. They stood about four feet tall and were surrounded by busy bees. Including me.

Meet Borage and Basil

Meet Borage and Basil. They are truffle pigs for the Herbfarm Restaurant in Woodinville. When I caught up with them they were sleeping in the shade of a hot day.

Cedar Beauties

Last week I took one of my nature sketch booking classes outside to draw in the evening. We quickly found a small opening in the middle of some trees on campus and within a few minutes, it got quiet as everyone settled in, to sketch. We all stayed past the end of our class time. In fact, one of the students and I stayed until the sun set and it got too dark to keep sketching. It was magical.

This sketch of the pond at Country Village took me a few days. Two hours there, an hour here. Initially I was just going to sketch the tree but more things kept catching my interest and I ended up drawing over the two pages, details and impressions. Great fun really!